Partition-packing.



Patbnted .luly I8, |899. H. .1. MARK. PARTITION PACKING. (Application mea Apr. 1899.)

2 Sheets-Sheet I.

No. 629,041. I

(NO Mudel.)

4U l! lll ivirnn @rares arnnr rricni HENRY J. MARK, F STLLOUIS, MiSSQURi.

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srncrrica'rron fog part of Letters retest nro. 629,041, dates July is, ieee. application nea April 3,1399. seran no. 711,564.. (no man.)

To all whom it may concern/:

Be it known that l, HENRY J. MARK, a citizen of the United States, residing at St. Louis, State of Missouri, have invented certain new and useful improvements in Partition-Packings,vof which the following is a full, clear, and. exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part thereof.

My invention has relation to improvements in partition-packings for bottles; and it consists in the novel arrangement and combination of parts more fully set forth in the speciication and. pointed out in the claims.

In the drawings, Figure l is a top plan View of a box, showing my partition-packing in the same, the shading of the bottom pad being omitted for the sake of clearness. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the packing, the adjacent or side wall of the boX being removed Y and a portion of the side liner being also removed. Fig. 3is a face elevation of one of the longitudinal partitions. -ldig. 4 is a face elevation of one of the transverse or intersecting partitions. enlarged scale, on line 5 5 of Fig. 3. Fig. 6 is a transverse section, enlarged, online 6 d I f Fig. 3. Fig. 7 is a face elevation of .a modication of the longitudinal partition. Fig. 8 is a face elevation of a modification of the transverse partition. Fig. 9 is a top edge view 'of Fig. 7, and Fig. l0 is a top edge Viewv of Fig. 8. y

The object of my present invention is.;v to construct a partitionpacking which shall Cinsure a maximum amount of cushioning to the walls of the bottles conned within the several compartments of the packing, one which will possess a maximum degree of elasticity, one in Ewhich the partitions' separating the several compartments of the packing possess an inherent stiffness sufiicient to preserve the several bottles against violentim pact against one another, one in which the walls of the compartments will yield sufficiently to allow for variable diameters or sizes of bottles, and one possessing further and other advantages more apparent from a detailed description of the invention, which is as follows. l

Referring to the drawings, l l represent a series of vertically-arranged parallel paste- Fig. 5 is a section, on an y board foundation strips or sheets covered on each face by a sheetof corrugated wood veneer A 2 of the same width, the corrugations running cesses 4 being disposed along one edge and at right angles thereto and extending to a point adjacent tothe line ofstitches referred to. The partitions, as'above described, are crossed or intersected by a second series of similar "parallel-partitions formedfinasiinilaeway by pasteboardcenter strips l' l', covered on each face by corrugated-wood-veneer strips 2' 2', secured by stitches 3', the recesses 4 of the intersectingseries tending downward, While the recessesfl of the first series tend upward, the two series crossing each other at the reeesses, the recess of onewall spanning the faces of the intersecting wall to the full depth of the recess, whereby when the several partitions are assembled their upper and lower edges will lie-in respectively parallel planes, the contiguous edges lying in the same plane. By the formation of the recesses 4 4 as indicated there is formed between any two con, secutive recesses a tongue or section which is more or less yielding from a line connecting the bases of the two recesses to the free edge of such section; but as four ofl such sections enter into the formation of the four walls constituting any compartment 5 made by the intersection of any four partitions'it follows that the walls of such compartment will readily yield in accommodating bottles which may vary more or less in the diameters of their body portions. titions intersecting each other as specified rest upon a bottom cushioning-pad comprisling a center sheet of pasteboard 6 and upper and lower corrugated veneer sheets 7 7, the pad resting on the bottom of the box 8 in which the packing is confined. The side and end compartments 5 are completed as to their outer wall by the side and end liners or pads, each composed of a center sheet of pasteboard The assembled series of par- IIOO 9, covered. by corrugated-wood-veneer sheets 10, attached thereto by sewing, asv clearly obvious from Fig. 2.

In all the foregoing cases the veneer sheets are preferably corrugated in the act of cutting or stripping the same frorn the original block of wood, though I am -not limited to this specific form of veneer. Neither do;I wish to be understoodas limitingY myself to a pasteboard center, for any other soft and .pliable center sheet or filling of' other matetles I may substitute a pasteboard strip 11 of 4 but one-half the full width or .depth of the completed partition, the veneer covering l2 being disposed on only one face thereof and the recesses 13 extending to the edge of the pasteboard. This modification is illustrated in Figs. 7 to 10, inclusive.

, While I prefer that the corrugations of the several strips comprising the walls of the compartments` in which the bottles are inserted shall run at an angle to a line perpendicular to the upper and lower edges of any strip, I do not wish to limit the invention thereto, as the corrugations themselves may run atlright angles to said opposite edges. While I have referred to the veneer sheets as being stitched to the center plane pasteboa'rd strip, they may be secured thereto in any other equivalent manner.

Having described my invention, what I claim is 1. In a partition-packing, a composite wall or partition comprising a center plane foundation-strip, a sheet of "eneer secured thereto and covering either face of the foundationstrip, the' veneer being corrugated and the corrugations running in parallel rows from the lower t'o the upper edge of the sheet, the partition having a series of recesses formed adjacent to one edge thereof and extending in parallel series' to approximately the middle of the depth of the partition, substantially as set forth.

2. In a partition-packing, a composite wall or partition comprising a center plane foundation-strip, a sheet of veneer secured thereto by stitching and covering each face of the foundationstrip,tlie veneer bein gooi-rugated,

and the corrugations running in parallel rows` from thelower to the upper edge of the sheet,

the partition having a series of recesses formed adjacent-to one edge thereof and extending in parallel series to approximately the middle of the depth of the partition and to a point adjacent to the line of stitching by which the veneer is ,secured to the'fonndation-strip, substantially as set forth.

3. -In a partition-packing, a composite wall or partition, comprising a center plane foun-v dation-strip of pasteboard, a sheet of wood veneer secured -by stitching and covering each face of the foundation-strip, the veneer being corrugated and the corrugations running in parallelrows from the lower to the yupper edge' of the sheet, the partition having a series of recesses formed adjacent to one edge thereof and extending in parallel series to approximately the middle of the depth of the partition and to a point adjacent the line of. stitching by which the veneer is secured to the foundation-sheet, substantially as set forth.

4,. A partition-packing comprising a series of parallel composite walls or partitions, each composed of a plane foundation-sheet, having secured thereto by stitching a corrugated wooden veneer sheet along each face thereof, the partition having a series of recesses extending fromv one of its longitudinal edges to the middle of the width thereof, and to a point adjacent to the line of stitching, said series being intersected by a second parallel row of similar partitions, the recesses of one being opposite those of lthe other, and embracing the faces of the intersecting wall to the full depth of the recess whereby the opposite edges of the several partitions are disposed along parallel planes, the packing being provided. with a suitable bottom pad, and side and end listers, substantially as set-forth.

5. In a partition-packing, a composite wall or partition comprising a center plane foundation-strip of pasteboard, a sheet of wood veneer disposed adjacent thereto and cover- 

